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As Sidebar readers know, my father was badly busted by investigative reporter Robert Anglen in this March 16, Cincinnati Enquirer front-pager:


A decade after that  drubbing, my father's stilltrying to falsely claim credit for inventing the Reversed Gastric Tube operation (RGT) to replace a damaged esopahagus.

Click hereHeimlich's Maneuvers.

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I'm not going to go into the weeds, but here's the tallest one in Dr. Maneuver's garden:

Dr. Dan Gavriliu died in at the age of Without question, he deserves credit for being the first surgeon to discover and perform the procedure that would become known as the Heimlich-Gavriliu Reversed Gastric Tube operation. 

One hand giveth while the other hand taketh credit -- and putteth his own name first.

Then there's this:

Still, I am proud of the fact that I was the first surgeon in the Western world to perform the reversed gastric tube operation.

According to the website of  Greg Burke, who was quoted in the Enquirer